Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the case for Irwin Shaw must rest on the short stories, in which the force of simple observation, uncomplicated inspiration, modest but authentic craftsmanship are sufficient to sustain both writer and reader. A life devoted to such work might not have inspired a biography as lively as this one. But it might have provided the truly exemplary qualities Shnayerson strains so hard to find...
...pieced together like jigsaw puzzles into 516 scrolls. Harvard University's John Strugnell, head of the group since 1987, says fund-raising difficulties and the Arab-Israeli wars slowed progress. He admits that his deadline of 1997 is only an "intelligent guess," not a "promise," and that work could stretch years beyond that...
...elusive J.T. Milik of the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. He is a former Roman Catholic priest who has been assigned to prepare 50 or more photographic plates of the documents. Says Milik unrepentantly: "The world will see the manuscripts when I have done the necessary work." Castigating the "unhealthy curiosity" of complaining historians, he nonetheless says he has assigned two U.S. colleagues to help with some of his scrolls...
...events. His calls to a dozen heads of state and his orders to ambassadors and military commanders set in motion literally hundreds of probes and pressures to pinch off the terrorist acts, perhaps the most comprehensive network ever stitched together so quickly and so quietly. That is much harder work than going to war, and the returns are not yet in. The use of force may still be the only effective answer. Bush's exercise of power is another experiment in the new world that he inherited and that continues to evolve before our eyes...
...cover. Across the country, the heating up of the abortion issue in recent months has confronted reporters with an acute professional dilemma: How can they personally take a public stand on a question they feel strongly about without seeming to compromise the objectivity of the publication for which they work...